The Osceola times., 1887-01-15
wa. aIgb, or nine miles, and rot to the

wa. eight or nine miles, and got 70 the
river by day break. had my plant there,
so changed my clothing cut of my mus
tache with scissors, got into the boa
and fioated down the river After had
gone about six miles struck sand-bar
and camped on IT, I went through the
valise there, and, think, left some papers
on the bar Did the Republican, get tho
packages Of mortgages and drafts lsentf'
Upon being answered in the Affirmative,
he said :"Ididn'twantt destroy any papers
at all. stopped on the saud-bar all day,
sleeping most Of the time. When woke
up | had the rheumatism in my left ankle
so bad that limped. Then | started down
the river again and that old skin leaked SO
badly that | had TO work hard TO keep
from upsettng | must have got down
twenty or twenty y-hye miles that day, ana
at night got into slough full OF snags
that came near settling the whole busi-
ness. The boat was leaking fast, and SO l
decided TO leave it, After stopping ON
mud bank until morning started down
the river again and passed 81. Charles
Wednesday noon. ! got out OF Tue boat be-
low St Charles and planted II where II
was found then took the grip ana
walked eight or nine miles across the
country to some point on the Keo-
kuk road l took the train there
and went to Louisiana, Mo i was
afraid to buy a paper, and l got OUT
of the town as quick as l could ana
went TO Kansas City, | stopped ia Kansas
City for four or five weeks and had a doc
tor attending to my rheumatism. After l
got well, about December 3, went South
| over the Gulf road to Memphis and Nlcks-
burg, Atlanta and Savannah AT savannah
picked up an honest young fellow named
| Burnham, whose parents live in Baltimore.
/ brought him along with me TO Chicago
to watch. He didn't know anything about
this business, so 1 told him that had got
into trouble in Chicago and wanted him to
see II any one was laying for me. he was
arrested, but was let goN .l
'What were the circumstances OF your
arrestl"
''Oh, Burnham and went into little
saloon near where kept my coal Office,
and three men came in and arrested us
| before we had a chance to fight Kinney
was to bring me some money that day,
and he and Weaver were arrested to-
gether about the same time. The Pinker-
| tons treated me splendid and the men
have been with are mighty fine fellows" ;"
what about the sweat-box or dun
geoni"
sTll take more of IT, like it. Porter
house steak and snipc on toast.''a
"Where did you pick up WeaverG'
'In Chicago. He or his wife kept
laundry few doors from me.n
"Where is Kinneyf'
"He is released, think He didn't have
anything TO do with the business"
ale was your brother-in-la -lawi'
"He was supposed TO be- and here Witt
rock smiled.
GLOW much money was there in the
piler
s'To tell the truth never counted it, but
there was enough to buy cigars for long
timen
''Did you try to change any OF the $1,000
billsp
"No, / didn't have to. There were five
dollar bills enough to last until 1907
"You wrote that letter to Frank James"
Eyes, that was joke. You see, wo
were o.. e-'H
PACK OF BOYS
who did the work, not one Of us were ever
inside of jail before. The detectives be-
gan to look for pro fessionals on the start,
and that was what fooled EN-. I'd like to
say about Haight that he had nothing TO
do with the actual work The poor fellow
was so hard up in Chicago that he was
starving. The first thing he did with the
money gave him was 10 buy two porter
house steaks for his family"
..Do you know how much OF the money
was rccoveredp' ELI.
"hll but about ss0O0 and tharll be re-
covered soon. It was planted everywhere
in bottles, tin cans and in the ground"
'Did you expect TO get over $4,000 when
you entered the cara"
"No, didn't, it was just uck to strike a
big run Ten thousand would have done
mc.n
Have any promises Of immunity been
made TO youW
"None whatever"
lis il true that your motive IN commit
ting the robbery was to get money TO LIT
the mortgage on your mothers homer
"lt's the truth"
While Wittrock was talking, ThOs.
Weaver, the partner who weakened" i"
was brought in from Chicago. He is a
short man with sandy mustache and
beard of few weeks growth. When
asked to unburden himself he said II
won't say one word about the case. | sec
that Wittrock has been talking 10 you, but
I've got nothing TO say, only that I've been
treated well since | was arrestedn